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Roger Avary, the co-writer of Pulp Fiction says: Originally the briefcase contained diamonds. But that just seemed too boring and predictable. So it was decided that the contents of the briefcase were never to be seen. This way each audience member would fill in the blank with their own ultimate contents. All you were supposed to know was ...

It's never explicitly said in the film, but if we listen closely the apartment scene we can understand Marvin was their informant within that group. Here is the script of the scene. Jules - "We should have shotguns for this kinda deal." Vincent - "How many are up there?" Jules - "Three or four." Vincent - "That's counting our guy?" Jules - "Not ...

This is has already been answered and accepted, but I feel the need to answer anyway, because I have a very different point of view. I'll use the same breakdown that phwd uses. See now I'm thinkin', maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9 Milimeter here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of ...

Well people try and make tenuous Links between reservoir dogs and pulp fiction, by that I mean people try and see if they hold up as sequels, whether continuity wise they can work. A logical opinion is to say that the diamonds that are stolen in Dogs are what are in the brief case in Fiction. However Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino act as two different ...

I've always assumed (despite Avary's explanation) that it was a clever movie reference to the McGuffins in two previous movies. The most recent being the great Repo Man (Dir Alex Cox, 1984) where a briefcase purported to contain alien remains and which glows mysteriously is a key thread. This, in turn, may have some relationship with the case of ...

There are three explanations. See now I'm thinkin', maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9 Milimeter here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. The kid is led astray, Jules is on right path and his gun (and the idea of being killed) is the item preventing him from going off his ...

Any answer to this question is going to be uncomfortably close to opinion rather than fact, but I will have a go at answering it objectively. Travolta and Willis were - by far - the most well known actors in the movie. Travolta in particular had been around in leading roles since the 70s with major parts in Grease, Saturday Night Fever. However his more ...

I heard the theory that @JosephLynn mentioned about it being Wallace's soul - and relating it to the injury on the back of his neck. The theory only has slim backing - the glow, the band-aid, the combination of the briefcase (666) and the 'miracle' that happens as Vince and Jules come to take the soul back, perhaps rescuing it from the devil. Obviously the ...

'The Gimp' was already in the basement, he is kept down there. We can infer this from Maynard stating 'The Gimp's sleeping' and Zed suggesting 'Well we better wake him up then'. To answer your second one, I suggest googling what a 'Gimp' is. However, if you don't want to, then I suggest googling 'gimp mask' which should be able to explain it. This is all ...

They did not kill Marvin because he was part of Wallace's network and was an informer in the gang. Remember they asked "why didn't you tell us there was a man in the kitchen with a god damn cannon?" or something like that. This shows that they were expecting him to provide this info and logically he was their man (mentioned in the hallway). If they had ...

Searching around, I found an interesting detail. When Jules and Vincent are going to Brett's apartment, they open the trunk of the car in order to get the guns, and this is what they say: JULES We should have shotguns for this kind of deal. VINCENT How many up there? JULES Three or four. VINCENT Counting ...

The only canon reference we have is from Vincent. He tells the wolf "the gun went off, I don't know why". It is possible he is lying but there seems to be little reason to do so, he is certainly not scared of the wolf and is not shy about sharing his opinions (eg he tells he partner his plan to wonder around having adventures would make him a bum etc). ...

Wolfe is what is known as a cleaner - someone who cleans up crime scenes for the mob. He is a fixer and facilitator - he knows how to dispose of bodies and how to create alibis. For more information, check out the 'cleaner' page on Wikipedia.

He could easily have been kidnapped just like the two main characters were. If Butch had not gone back then Wallace probably would have been used as a gimp too. However as Butch's father's friend told him when he was a child "When two men are in a dangerous situation they take on a certain responsibility for each other" (quote might not be accurate) he ...

Until reading the other answers here I always assumes that it contained gold bars because of the orange glow. I know this is a slightly boring conclusion but I don't think that Pulp Fiction is supernatural in any way and the theory about Wallace's soul is just silly. It had to be something very valuable due to Tim Roth's reaction to it and the colour of the ...

According to Phil LaMarr (actor who played Marvin), from his AMA post on Reddit /r/IAMA, it's because (emphasis, mine): The back story that Quentin and I talked about was that Marvin and Jules had people in common and when this briefcase thing went down Jules was able to get in touch w/ Marvin and offered these guys who were holed up, scared and ...